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Joaquin Buckley talks to us before his Colby Covington main event at #UFCTampa
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Jan 20, 2025
Newmansa Joaquin Buckley is looking good and feeling good ahead of his Colby Covington surprise matchup! Joaquin graced us with his good vibes this Sunday after #UFC310, talked how he rated Shavkat Rakhmonov vs former opponent Ian Garry, how he's prepped for this new matchup and his plans for the near future. He teases a couple surprise moves up his sleeves too, who you got this weekend?! 01:44 Buckley sets the record straight 03:07 Breaking down Rakhmonov vs Gary 06:27 Self promotion 08:33 No one wants to talk $h*t 12:08 For the fans 15:11 Lights camera 🎬 18:13 Back to middleweight? Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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how yall feel how y'all doing good good
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how are you you already know mad [Â __Â ]
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bro we blessed bro got my little first
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main event we locked in yeah so I guess
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we'll just start uh we're here uh Angela
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Hill and Jessica Penny here with wem
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Buckley fighting in his first main event
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next week thank you so much for your
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time uh yeah tell us how you're feeling
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so we feeling good yet again I got a my
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first main event I got my first show
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that I feel like you know I can really
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go out there man and give it my all uh I
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feel like with this fight right here
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this being my 15th fight I done really
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kind of you know submitted my name you
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know what I'm saying in order to get
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this Main Event so it's really time to
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show the crowd and show the fans exactly
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what they you know going tune in and see
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so getting this main event I feel like
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it's really fueling me up right now to
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give them a show that they they never
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forget for sure I mean it it doesn't
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take much to fuel you up you've been on
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a tear recently uh fighting in your home
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town getting Knockouts being on a big
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streak so how did it feel when the
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switch up happened with you and the Ian
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Gary match up and now you're fighting
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Kobe kovon but it's the main event so
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how did all those emotions happen go
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down with you when you find out I I want
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to say I was not much as emotion but I
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feel like you know when I seen it online
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you know like the switch up was about to
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happen because of Bal you know situation
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with his foot you hear me him getting
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that infection uh they need to find
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somebody to to replace uh Bala in order
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for shot you know what I mean to be able
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to fight I saw a lot of rumors happen on
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Instagram and [Â __Â ] like that on the feed
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talking about you know Ian Gary just
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might switch over Ian Gary making a post
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like you know he down the fight and
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whatnot you know I'm like hold up no we
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didn't sign a contract with one another
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like you slow down dog slow your rooll
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uh but once the UFC hit me up and told
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me they had another opportunity for me
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you know I was all good you know what I
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mean I feel like for real for real it's
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a better opportunity to fight Kobe
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coverton because yet again he didn't
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fought for the belt a couple times uh he
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was a interim champion at one point in
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his career and like you know he got a
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bigger name and a better ranking so
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getting a win it it puts me in in a good
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position so you know we ain't stressing
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about nothing do you feel like you're
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still um I guess in the running up like
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this is a contender fight or do you
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think you might have to get one more win
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before I don't know y'all saw that fight
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that happened last night
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you though the two undefeated guys they
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went to war or I would to say went to
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war they they fought uh I feel like you
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know it didn't they didn't give a a good
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performance right they didn't put on the
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type of performance that would lead to
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give them a title now I believe that the
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UFC is going to keep their word and you
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know and allow shaat to fight for the
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title uh but I just really believe like
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if anything goes wrong you know what I'm
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saying where somebody doesn't show up I
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feel like you know I can replace it and
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definitely be put myself uh in a
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position where I can fight for a bill in
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my next fight yeah so was there anything
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surprising about that fight last night
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for you I mean you having your eyes
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closely focused on both of those
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opponents you I G lie like you know it
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was a couple things I felt like I
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already knew it was going to be born I
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feel like you know especially with the
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anticipate no for real for real for real
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you know uh I I just thought you know it
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was a lot on the line for both of these
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guys and I felt like you know with the
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ability of shaa and uh him being such a
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finisher he needs somebody to come and
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and stick with him to try to fight uh
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but I find it funny how shaa actually
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tried to use more of his grappling than
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his striking uh and as he tried to take
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Ian Gary to the ground he had a lot of
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trouble he he struggled with it for a
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bit and uh with Ian Gary you know I was
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expecting him to kind of use his pedal
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and kind of slide out but he kind of
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stood in front of you know shaat but
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shaat actually didn't you know I'm
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saying go for the kill and I feel like
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with that being said you know it led to
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that boring performance but I was
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actually surprised more by Ian Gary than
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I was sha yeah sha not not shaa Ian Gary
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just stood right in front of him you
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know like you know try used the long
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guard a bit but did not use no footwork
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in that fight
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whatsoever why do you think that
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happened do you have like a theory on I
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I like I know why you know what I'm
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saying no disrespect to Sho boxing but I
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feel like whatever camp that Ian Gary
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came from and now he switched over he
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kind of changed the style and you seen
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it with MVP right saw he was grappling
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more you know going for takedowns and
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putting himself in a situation where he
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he was trying to be more of a Grappler
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and I felt like it was the same
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situation on the same same scenario and
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you seen that he took a couple good uh
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positions where he took sha cot back you
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know I mean almost got the r neck choke
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you know uh took sha cot down a couple
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times uh but at the end of the day like
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he's he's getting away from what he's
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known you know and that's being that
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counter fighter moving off the pedal as
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you chasing him he comes down the pipe
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you know what I mean and really throws
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those punches but I feel like he might
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be getting away from his actual natural
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ability what was uh your approach going
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to be can you uh drop that on us now
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that you don't I mean I mean you know
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even though uh he lost I know that fight
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is still going to be out there um but I
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feel I feel like in this particular
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moment if Ian Gary would have fought me
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the same way that he fought last night I
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would have knocked him out that night
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period oh
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okay so you talk about you know this was
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a boring fight that we just saw and you
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I mean what y'all thought hold on now y
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ask me
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all well you're on our show we get to
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ask you all the questions invite us on
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your show and you can ask us stuff hey
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there you go let's get it brick Brothers
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podcast hop on it yeah next time let's
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get it yeah so you mentioned that it was
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a boring fight um I thought it was a
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very a Strate a strategic fight it was
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um a closer fight than than I thought it
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was going to be but I did think shav cut
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was going to get the win so you being an
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exciting fighter and somebody who is
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also exciting outside of the cage like
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um how do you do you think that is the
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reason that you've kind of Skyrock
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rocket into this Main Event because some
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people don't get that opportunity and
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there's a lot of people in different
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divisions that have that complaint that
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they don't get that that opportunity
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right right and be honest with you I
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feel like I still haven't done much
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right but the little things that I have
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done to promote myself have gotten me
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very far so I feel like yet again like
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it's still levels to this that I feel
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like I haven't even touched to but with
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those other people saying you know they
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haven't gotten a shot like you got to
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make your opportunities that's literally
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why I got this you know take the throne
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and I got to take the throne mentality
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like no opportunity is given to me we
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make the opportunities and then we go
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out there and take it again you know so
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with that being said it's just like this
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Main Event just didn't come up out of
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nowhere and they was like oh yeah let's
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just give Buck this like no like I made
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this happen for myself you know and when
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you go out there and you uh go for great
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things and you try to achieve great
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things great things happen to you nice I
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love that I love that do you uh know
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anything about Covington's camp like has
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he been training for something else and
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then this popped up is he jumping in
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last minute like do you
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know that's a question for Kobe to be
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honest with I see him all on you know on
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the twitch you know you all outside with
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the influences uh catching pedophiles
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and all this other [Â __Â ] you
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know right so uh I don't know you know
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uh whatever he's doing you know and and
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however he's preparing for his fight
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he's feeling like he's doing whatever he
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needs to do to in order to step in that
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cage so whatever makes him comfortable
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taking this fight with me and and
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stepping into that cage to 7 before 14
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keep doing what you're doing bro so how
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do you prepare for what doesn't happen
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inside the cage like fight week there's
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going to be a pre-fight presser like how
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do you prepare yourself for that aspect
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of the fight I mean I feel like you
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know regardless of how Kobe is right and
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his personality and when he talk trash
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like y'all know how it is like when we
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grew up in school and stuff like that
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people be digging on the bus especially
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you angel you know what I mean like we
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be on the bus we be going back and forth
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like joning and crack I feel like it's
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noise to me you know it's like when you
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prepare for these type of things it's
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just like if if we going to talk let's
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talk but I like to talk the truth you
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know what I mean and I like to be real
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so my thing is if he wants to talk any
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any nonsense I got some I got some good
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heat for him you know what I'm saying
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when it comes to that press conference
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so we got some stuff lined up for him
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yeah I get so mad that no one wants to
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talk [Â __Â ] like yeah you got because at
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the end of the day you gotta live up to
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it right yeah yeah that's the hard part
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y also you don't want to lose the the
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[Â __Â ] talk battle before the fight too
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because that
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mess I get to whoop your ass yeah true
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true well I like how you um how you were
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talking about um uh Gary switching camps
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and I was wondering where are you
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training right now where did you train
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for this fight I know you bounced around
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a little bit but I'm wondering where
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your uh core was for this Camp uh the
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core was uh right here in St
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Louis uh with St Charles MMA so I
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trained with them since I was back home
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we trying to get something opened up you
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know right after this fight and I'm
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trying to have my own facility uh pretty
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soon I think it's around that time that
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I need my own uh spot but right now
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we've been uh messing with Mike Rogers
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uh Jeff Henry I've been working with my
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guy Valkyrie Fitness uh Travis Brown
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been working with my man uh Reggie who's
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my boxing coach atcl boxing Academy and
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also my guy that I do my podcast with uh
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brick Brothers uh podcast with Sol
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foundation so we plan on opening up
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something real soon but St Charles and M
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May that's where we was at yeah nice
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how' you come to that decision to open
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up your own gy uh I I mean because I
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feel like for me I I make a lot of my
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own decisions you know um I feel like I
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need a facility where I can go train at
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any given time and bring in the people
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that's necessary you know uh I feel like
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I managed my career very well on my own
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and I I kind of build a team I don't
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join the team I build a team you know
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and I put WR uh people around me you
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know what I'm saying that specified in
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certain uh Specialties whether that's
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you know nutrition whether that's
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wrestling whether that's boxing whether
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that's J jitu overall MMA it doesn't
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matter I try to find the best guys and
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especially when it come to sparring you
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know bringing in the right guys as well
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you know if I got to fly them out at
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least I can take care of you know I mean
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then I have my own gym that you know
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really they get comfortable and uh uh we
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really get that work in nice do you do
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you feel like um cuz you you said you
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haven't done that much yet but I feel
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like you've done a lot you're on every
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highlight re when the UFC fights start
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you know you see the big kick and
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everything like you you've made your
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mark in the sport and in your weight
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class do you feel like the the fans see
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that as well or do you still think you
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have a lot to prove uh no when it comes
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to fighting they they know what they
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getting right like I said this be my
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15th fight you know within four years uh
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in the UFC and I really feel like you
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know the type of time and the resume
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that I've been able to grow like the
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fans know exactly what to expect when
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they watch my fights I feel like I need
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to grow outside of the cage I think
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that's the most important thing and yet
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again that's the small little part that
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I'm talking about I feel like I can grow
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so much bigger outside of the UFC
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instead of just keeping myself or
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keeping my personality uh just just
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confined in the cage it's time to show
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my personality outside this thing and
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really blow up yeah and what does that
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look like to you like what are your
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dreams and aspirations outside uh dream
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I mean I don't know about you know I'm
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living my dream right now you know what
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I'm saying I'm really doing my thing but
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it's just like doing little things like
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you know doing the mean Greeks right you
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know I had a little situation happen you
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know at David bu whatever word yeah what
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happened right right I
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me unfortunately you know uh uh lady
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just you know made a mistake you know
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and uh they Wen able to offer or or give
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us what we needed at that time so we
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just had to pack up and leave um so you
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know but not trying to get it all up
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into that situation but I want to be
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able to engage with the fans before my
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fights you know I want to do something
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that a lot of Fighters don't aren't
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comfortable with doing at the time
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because they got a big moment coming up
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you know and I feel like for me whatever
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is the best way to promote and and feel
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good energy from the fans because like
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you know when when you pay for a ticket
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and and you see somebody like you you
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would want to be able to be just
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surrounded by them you know and I give
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uh the fans the opportunity to do that
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because yet again they paying their hard
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earned money I just want to be able to
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uh show them my appreciation for even
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popping out and and and really showing
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love how they should so I think that's
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my one way giving back you know to the
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fans but I feel like that's something
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that can really grow my brand even
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stronger cuz no other fighter is doing
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that thanks speaking of uh growing
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outside of the cage I saw you had a
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little one-on-one with DC before your
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last fight do you feel like you guys
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like squash the beef or is just still a
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little bit Brewing like I said well for
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me ain't no beef for real right like
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it's not real beef but I find it funny
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that like you know a lot of people that
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clown with him and joke with him you
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know that's what it is but then with me
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like it is a real situation but for me
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on my end ain't no beef like I said you
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know I always want to work with the
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double champ always want to you know
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saying Spa around but my man [Â __Â ] he a
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super heavyweight now you know what I'm
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saying so I might have to be careful I a
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trying to throw my back out but ain't no
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be3 you know what I'm saying I got
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nothing but respect for DC at the end of
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the day you already know I don't know he
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might be worried after seeing you
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wrestling in the Wonder Boy fight you
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were on playing I appreciate you and
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that's what people don't realize like
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I'm a mix martial artist my my start
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into martial arts was wrestling you know
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like that was my first discipline you
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know um and I feel like for myself it's
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just there's a lot of things and a lot
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of tools that I still haven't shown that
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I feel like are really going to surprise
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a lot of people you know uh and
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especially in this fight with Kobe coven
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you know a lot of people feel like his
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only chance is to wrestle me but to be
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honest with you he gonna have a hard
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time doing that you know especially with
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the guys that I've trained with down in
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Michigan with Nick Simmons with Andy
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Simmons you know and them really showing
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me some good work uh down there and and
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really showing me good basic techniques
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that you know uh they cleaned up for me
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I I feel like Kobe going to have a hard
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time dealing with me definitely in the
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wrestling you mention might hey y' might
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see me take him down on God I mean hey I
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believe
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it you did the problems you gave to
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Wonderboy the problems that you gave to
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luk a like you're you're just doing
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something really special that other
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people have a really hard time with so
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it's very impressive and that's why you
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know people get behind you that's why
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people tune in to see you exactly
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exactly all I'm in there doing trying to
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fight bro that's it I'm in there trying
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to bang you know and a lot of guys they
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don't they don't come with that type of
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energy sometimes you know and and
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obviously it's a sport it's a
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competition you got to try to win but
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you got to be entertaining too at the
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same time so that's exactly what we plan
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on doing being Entertainer and winning
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at the same time so you mentioned that
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you started with wrestling I I didn't
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know that um how exactly did you like
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find your way what was your path into
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MMA uh the
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movies always want to be a martial arts
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uh actor want to be Michael J white you
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know what I'm saying
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Jackie uh but you know I always been um
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intrigued by the martial arts so I'm a
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big student I'm a big fan of all
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different disciplines from Taekwondo
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from karate from Judo um obviously you
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know you got pox a lot out there you
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know you got L fighting in sagol it's
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just like I've always been such a um
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incredible you know I mean just uh a fan
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of all different traditional arts and I
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feel like for me me being in mixed
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martial arts you know you can take from
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all different disciplines and kind of
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make your own kind of um fingerprint
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right cuz I feel like unfortunately
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there's a lot of people that's say MMA
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and they all fight the same you know
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this is the only real where we can do
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whatever we want to right you can always
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use your creativity to kind of you know
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shine through in the cage cuz there so
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much [Â __Â ] that we still have not seen in
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the Octagon that can still be displayed
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and uh I really feel like my love for
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martial arts from the very beginning has
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led me to be the fighter that I am today
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what exactly would be like your dream
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technique or dream scenario in a fight
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that you don't see anybody else doing
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except for uh sh I think I already did
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that [Â __Â ] I know
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right number two exactly number two um I
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can't say it because I might want to try
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to use it you know like like you know so
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I I I got a special little move that I
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always try uh in training that I feel
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like in this fight I can definitely pull
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off so you know yeah you got tell us
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after we finished I got you I got you I
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I got send us a
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tutorial where do you where do you think
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um like when it comes to like final form
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Buckley what do you think that style
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looks like there is no final for you
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know and that's the one thing you know I
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will have to give myself I'm always
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trying to learn there's always room to
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grow there's always uh room to improve
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you know there is no perfect fighter you
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know like any type of thing that I feel
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like um I might have holes in you know I
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try to fill them in before somebody else
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does it for me in the cage right so I
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always look to try to put myself in
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uncomfortable position where I'm always
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learning and feeling like okay I don't
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like this position but I'm going get
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comfortable here right and I'm going to
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make sure I can learn how to get out of
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it or I can learn how to put myself in a
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position where I can uh not just work
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out of it but U find a submission from
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it right or find different places where
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I can punch and kick and find different
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Avenues where I can move and still be a
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dynamic fighter it's just like I always
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want to put myself in in in stressful
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situations because that's a you know
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this a stressful sport so you got to get
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used to being able to think on the fly
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but if you never been in that situation
17:51
or you never trained that before
17:53
sometimes it doesn't click so I try to
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put myself in so many different
17:56
scenarios so many different positions
17:58
that I can try to learn from nice do you
18:01
think you'll ever go back to
18:02
middleweight or you think that's like
18:05
you're you're comfortable in your weight
18:06
class now no no if I get a easy lick
18:09
somebody with the belt yeah I'm moving
18:11
I'm G pull a George St Pierre real quick
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you know yeah so and I I feel like for
18:16
me yet again I gotta do my job at 170
18:19
clear out that Division and then if I
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get an opportunity to move up to 185 yet
18:23
again for for something nice I'm gonna
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move up to 195 [Â __Â ] 205 what
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yeah no serious I was just curious
18:33
because um uh if you watch Al Jo's fight
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it was one of those where you can still
18:38
see that the skill levels were similar
18:42
um if anything maybe he had better skill
18:44
in the fight but he looked under size
18:47
and I was wondering if that like was
18:49
ever an issue for you at 85 I mean that
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was definitely an issue for me at 185
18:54
that was definitely issue for me at 185
18:56
but I feel like IID do it right next
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time
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I was I wasn't the appropriate size for
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185 when I first started there I was 190
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I was only walking around 190 at the
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time uh and then cutting just five
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pounds and then walking into the cage
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you know what I mean getting back up to
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190 get just her five pounds you know uh
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but a lot of these other guys when they
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cut to 185 they going back up to 200 or
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215 you know so they really do have a
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great size Advantage um so I just I I
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feel like I just didn't do it right so
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now that I'm at 170 I know that my body
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still going to naturally grow and as I
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get older it's going to be kind of
19:32
harder to cut that weight to in the
19:34
future so I know that now that I'm
19:35
walking around 200 I'm going be more fit
19:38
as a middleweight and then yet again
19:40
still trying to build muscle and and
19:42
build size I'd be a good like
19:44
heavyweight too in the future dang so
19:47
okay so you're a little bigger now then
19:49
oh yeah a lot bigger
19:51
yeah old man wait on you that's good
19:54
good to know for the 205 part at least
19:57
exactly yeah
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thanks good yeah I think we're good man
20:05
like uh if you had anything to because
20:08
you're a great salesman you've been
20:10
selling the hell out of the the Ian Gary
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fight I'm mad that that fight didn't go
20:16
down because of all the promos yeah all
20:18
that promo just just go to waste it was
20:21
good but uh we got we ain't got Buck
20:24
versus cuck but now we got something new
20:26
on the menu we got Buck versus duck you
20:28
know so I really feel like this is the
20:30
next fight you know that that's really
20:32
going to uh put my name out there and
20:34
it's really going to show everybody you
20:35
know why I should get that belt and we
20:37
definitely Tak them to throne baby 2025
20:39
let's get it all right well you answer
20:42
my question thank you man thanks so much
20:44
for your time all right y I appreciate
20:46
y'all for getting me on the show and I
20:48
got gotta show that same love back to us
20:50
all right yeah for
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sure yeah bring us on I can't wait I
20:56
didn't know you had a podcast so I'm
20:57
excited about watching it so if you guys
20:59
want to check out the podcast definitely
21:01
go check it out on YouTube on brick
21:02
Brothers podcast and if you can't find
21:04
it there go to Walken Buckley official
21:06
page y'all find it there too all right
21:09
all right thanks so much man get that
21:10
knock out we're rooting for you can't
21:12
wait to see it all right appreciate y
21:14
let's get it you already know good money
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